Sharon Rosenhause retired August 1, 2008 as managing editor of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel . She joined the newspaper in March, 2001 after eight years as managing editor/news of the San Francisco Examiner . When the Examiner staff merged into the San Francisco Chronicle , Rosenhause became editor of the new Chronicle PM edition.

The New York native, who graduated from Queens College in Flushing, NY, and was a Knight Fellow at Stanford University, has also worked at the Bergen (NJ) Record , Los Angeles Times , and New York Daily News . Rosenhause, who has served two terms as a Pulitzer juror, is a current board member of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, the advisory board of the Race and Diversity Workshop at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, and the Foundation for American Communications.

In 2006, Rosenhause won the Robert G. McGruder Award for Diversity Leadership in 2006, awarded by the American Society of Newspaper Editors, the Associated Press Managing Editors, and the Freedom Forum. In 2005, she won the Career Achievement Award from the Columbia Race Workshop. Rosenhause is a former board member of the Associated Press Managing Editors, the Journalism and Women Symposium, the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors, and the California Society of Newspaper Editors.